I do not plan nor i wish to run the game in the VM. That is not the solution. This PC is my only Windows machine. The old one, on wich Dead State has run without the problems has become a radius server running Slackware, and other machines are either UNIX or Linux servers. I can't test the installation/files on that machine anymore.

Unfortunately can't provide any log files because they do not exist.Would debug in x64dbg, but there is no running process so ...

Attached files are from my 'main' machine and also from the VM (crash reports on my 'main' do not exist and in VM dir is empty).

Directory Dead State in the virtual machine is also missing from Documents/my games, but the game starts fine.Virtual machine Dead State perfs.cs is located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dead State\ (so it should run without Documents/my games dir on my main).

It seems that for some reason ZRPG.exe is crashing (check the attachements).Again, under virtual machine is starting and running normally.

One of the causes of that exception code could be a directx problem. Since your vm has directx 11 and your main install has 12, that could be a possibility. I think the experimental build is supposed to take care of windows 10 and directx12 issues though.

Experimental build did not solve the issue.Entered blacksheepwall code, and selected public_test.Everything stayed the same. Game does not run.

The exception code is an access violation code (r/w, pointers, arrays, whatnot).Since there is no crash dump file, and i'm not into that stuff i can't give more info about that.

Tried to force it to run on another version of directx with "SET LAUNCH OPTIONS" in Steam. Did not hope to make any progress, but still one more thing off the check list.Commands used:-force-d3d9-dxlevel 90

Then i tried to force it with dxcpl.exe. Bummer ...Finally i used DXwnd with hook option. No avail.

Both the absence of console.log and no option to send a crash report are signs that the game doesn't even launch, as logging and crash reporting systems are first to initialize, before anything else really. So I'm pretty sure it's system or hardware issue, i.e. something before game code execution, an area where I can be most helpful.Looks like a lot of options have been tried already. How about 3rd party software that has privileges to terminate the process, like antivirus? Drivers? That could be a critical difference that allows VM to run it. If you restart Windows in safe mode, would result in successful DS launch?

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"Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey."The Black Company. Shadows Linger.

I am having the same error. If I manually run zrpg.exe I get an error about X3dAudio1_6.dll and d3dx9_41.dll being missing. All the same whether it is public beta or not, and win7 mode or not. I do not get a game directory in Documents.

These are DirectX libraries. Try running DirectX installer, it should be in game's installation folder, in _CommonRedist.

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"Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey."The Black Company. Shadows Linger.